History Flashcards
Namiaibian nationalism
Is a system wherby people express their feeling of love, pride and loyalty torwards their counrty or a desire of our first leaders to form a independent country
Name 3 factors that led to the rise of nationalism in Namibia
Colonial Oppression
Urbanisation
education
name 2 founding members of the ovambo peoples organisation (OPO)
sam nujoma andimba toivo ya toivo
Name 2 reasons why swapo was formed
Nujoma and yatoivo felt that opo exluded namibian people that were not vambos, they founded swapo to include all namibians
To take up arms in the fight for independence
Contract labour system
the contract labour system also know as migrant labour system was intoduces by german
authorities to solve the problems created by the labour shortage in the counrty in order to encourage workers to do their hard labour , the germany anuthority paid headman and chiefs a fee for every worker they recrioted
apartheid
is an afrikaans word meaning seperteness. The idea of aprtheid was that each race had different needs therefore they had to live seperetly from each other. Therefore many laws were introduced to make apartheid work
Apartheid laws
the group area act
Bantu education act
seperate amenities
Apartheid laws
The group area act
bantu education act
seperate amenities act
the role swapo played to liberate namibia
swapo remained active inside and outside of the country in 1984 SWAPO held talks with namibian political groups in LUsaka after the talks the supporters from namibian people increase many namiian people began to join the liberation struggle
Name 2 independent churches
Amec
Eloc
Give reasons why chruces were established
People wanted to adapt christianity to suit the needs of Namibians
Some church members wanted to be more actuvely involved in ending apartheid
they did not take african values well into account
reasons why the churches could not remain silent
Because sa kept namibia under apartheid laws
The cruelty of white authority
Churches had taken notice of how they were treating black namibians
what is a referendum
a referendum is about voting but done in a way where people are asked a question and they answer by ticking yes or no it is used when the goverment want to find out how to people feel about something
what was the eloc referendum
it was a questionnaire that was given to the eloc church members to see whether the namibian people were supporting the SA authority in namibia or not, bishop leonard auala was approached for the task he accepted the plan an he continued to distribute the questionnaire among his church members
What was the outcome of the eloc referendum
the resuly was an embaressment for the SA government most of the members rejected the SA rule and the message was loud and clear that SA rule was no longer in the territory
Pastoral letter
This is the letter that was written by the bishop leonard Auala to all the congregations of ELOC churches in which he gave his opinion against the SA rule in namibia this letter recieved the strong support from the angelican and catholic churches , which angelican bishop collin winters openly critisizing the aparthied policy as unacceptable before god
Pastoral letter
This is the letter that was written by the bishop leonard Auala to all the congregations of ELOC churches in which he gave his opinion against the SA rule in namibia this letter recieved the strong support from the angelican and catholic churches , which angelican bishop collin winters openly critisizing the aparthied policy as unacceptable before god
Open lettter
This was a letter written by bishop leonard of ELOC and pastor paulas Gowaseb of ELCIN to prime minister John Voster. The letter critisized The SA governement with its policy of apartheid ,colonial occupation and its human rights abuses in Namibia
General strike and the state of emergency of 1972
List the reasons for the general strike
The international court of justice that indicated that south African rule was illegal in Namibia
The speech of Bishop Auala to the contract workers
General strike and the state of emergency of 1972
List the reasons for the general strike
The international court of justice that indicated that south African rule was illegal in Namibia
The speech of Bishop Auala to the contract workers
The state of emergency
State of emergency is when the army and the policial are given the ability to arrest people on suspicion without having the respect the peoples rights, police and soldiers were brought from SA to stop the strike in Namibia many works were put in prison and tortured
During the state of emergency the following came into effect
Gathering of more that 5 was not allowed, detention without trial without trial was allowed.
More rights and workers condition of employment improved
The destruction of the Eloc printing press in oniipa
In 1973 the eloc printing press was destroyed in a bomb blast. This press was used to publish pastoral letters and all other correspondense sent to lutheran churches in Namibia. The police investigated the blast but did not identify the culprits, in 1980 the same thing happend. Its likely the south african forces were responsible
The roamn catholic church at Omuulukila
On 17 september 1978 the roman catholic church at omuulukila was blown up it was a sunday evening and nobody was in the church, so nobody was injured. The SADF accused SWAPO of the blast but SWAPO denied this.
Define the term Untag
This was the UN peace keeping force called united nations transition assistance group it came to Namibia by April 1989 with the purpose to monitor the independence process and ensuring that the free and fair election in Namibia is taking place
Legislative branch
Parliment is the body that makes or changes the laws for the country the law making body in our country the parliment consists of two houses where laws are made nations assembley with 72 memebers and national council with 26 members elected from 13 regions of Namibia. Every region has two representatives in the national council
National assembley
Two representitives from each region
a elected for a period of 6 years
Executive branch
It carries out the plans of the governement according to the acts passed by the parliiment. It is being headed by the president and the cabinet ministers. President and cabinet ministers make up the executive brank of the central government, The presiednt servers for 5 years after the next election should take place. A president can only server for two terms like 10 years.
The cabinet
The president
The prime minster
The ministers who are in charge of government departments
The judiciary branch
It consists of the judges and courts, its function is to ensure that justice is mantained in Namibia. The judgeslisten to the cases in courts, interprets laws and on the way to apply them. They give punishments to citizens who break the laws of the country. Nobody can interfere with a judges interpretation of the law. There are three levels of the courts in namibia;
Three levels of courts
Supreme court
The high court
The magistrate court
